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Beschreibung
Longlist, 2023 National Book Award in Poetry
Winner, 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry
Finalist, 2023 Northern California Book Award Poetry
Longlist, 2022 Julie Suk Award
Winner, 2019 YesYes Books Pamet River Prize

Shelley Wong's debut, As She Appears (longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award and winner of a 2023 Lambda Literary Award), foregrounds queer women of color in their being and becoming. Following the end of a relationship that was marked by silence, a woman crosses over and embodies the expanse of desire and self-love. Other speakers transform the natural world and themselves, using art and beauty as a means of sanctuary and subversion. With both praise and precision, Wong considers how women inhabit and remake their environment. The ecstatic joys of Pride dances and late-night Chinatown meals, conversations with Frida Kahlo, trees that "burst into glamour," and layers of memory permeate these poems as they travel through suburban California, perfumed fashion runways, to a Fire Island summer. Wong writes in the space where so many do not appear as an invitation for queer women of color to arrive in love, exactly as they are.
Longlist, 2023 National Book Award in Poetry
Winner, 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry
Finalist, 2023 Northern California Book Award Poetry
Longlist, 2022 Julie Suk Award
Winner, 2019 YesYes Books Pamet River Prize

Shelley Wong's debut, As She Appears (longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award and winner of a 2023 Lambda Literary Award), foregrounds queer women of color in their being and becoming. Following the end of a relationship that was marked by silence, a woman crosses over and embodies the expanse of desire and self-love. Other speakers transform the natural world and themselves, using art and beauty as a means of sanctuary and subversion. With both praise and precision, Wong considers how women inhabit and remake their environment. The ecstatic joys of Pride dances and late-night Chinatown meals, conversations with Frida Kahlo, trees that "burst into glamour," and layers of memory permeate these poems as they travel through suburban California, perfumed fashion runways, to a Fire Island summer. Wong writes in the space where so many do not appear as an invitation for queer women of color to arrive in love, exactly as they are.
Über den Autor
SHELLEY WONG is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books), longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award and winner of a 2023 Lambda Literary Award and the 2019 Pamet River Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, and New England Review. A Kundiman and MacDowell fellow, she lives in San Francisco.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781936919895
ISBN-10: 1936919893
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wong, Shelley
Hersteller: YesYes Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 203 x 152 x 7 mm
Von/Mit: Shelley Wong
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.05.2022
Gewicht: 0,195 kg
Artikel-ID: 130347113

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